Saturday, December 6, 2025

It's the same old song

 I recently got an e-mail urging me to contribute a paper to the International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science (IJAHSS)That name rang a bell--last year I discovered that I was listed as the editor of the EON International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.  Was the similarity in names just a coincidence?  I looked at the website for the IJAHSS and it looked a lot like what I remembered of the EIJAHSS--the major change is that there publication fee is up to $300 (previously $200).   They list an "Advisory Board" and an "Editorial Board" and I was relieved to find that I'm not included on either one.  The editor-in-chief is given as Val Dusek, of the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire.  I did a search for him and discovered that he died in May of this year.  I recognized one of the names on the editorial board, Ted Jelen of the University of Nevada Las Vegas.  A search revealed that he died in November 2017, several years before the journal started.  I haven't searched for any of the other people listed as members, but I wonder if there's a strategy there--dead people aren't going to find out and object to the misuse of their names.  


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